Social Media in Business

***** What are the key aims of "Social Media in Business"? ***** ..."Social Media in Business" provides an overview of the opportunities social media offers to a business and a concrete plan to help managers and decision-makers, effectively, integrate social media platforms into their current organizational structure. This title intends to provide a clear guide to social media in business for managers. It aims to help the manager to understand the opportunities and to create a common language of what social media means for your whole organization, not just the marketing and information technology (IT) parts of the business that tend to dominate the conversation around social media. Secondly, it provides a guide to a host of available social media applications and tools for business. Finally, the book presents an overview of the potential risks and impact of social media on your organization in a broader strategic sense...This title intends to provide a practical framework for the introduction and implementation of social media that can be adapted to your organization. The framework introduced in this book is The 3-CORE Project Success System, based on three elements: **Business Environment,** Project Stages, and ** The Project Development Cycle. The key idea is that the framework can be adapted to your organizational context and is easy to use in training employees who may not be familiar with social media or project management. The Project Development Cycle is a tool developed by the author to help organizations meet the above objectives...In "Social Media In Business", readers will discover: four business opportunities of social media; how social media has developed over the last three years; the social media applications guide; five social media "Dark Sides" and mitigation strategies; the 3-CORE Project Success System; and, the project development cycle.